THOUGHT OF IT FIRST
ROBERT BURNS AS" AN . INTERNATIONALIST
Robert Burns had the “one world” idea. He realised, long before humanity learned the hard way, th/at you cannot shut nations up in water-tight compartments and expect to keep the peace. He was convinced that brotherhood on a universal scale was the answer. It's coming yet, he said, that “man to man the world o’er shall brithers to be for a’ that.” He set no pattern, merely voiced the idea, and left succeeding generations to take over.
Recognition of Robert Burns’ promotion of the idea of the brotherhood of man has just come in a resolution adopted by the Council of the Burns Federation, with its 500 clubs scattered over the globe, to support the United Nations. The resolution says the U.N. is constituted to “give effect to the principle which was the basic principle of the teaching of Robert Burns.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 6, 17 March 1947, Page 4
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150THOUGHT OF IT FIRST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 6, 17 March 1947, Page 4
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